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The Reporter. (Akron, Ohio), 1992-05-09

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PWfc Reporter ! incinnati ? Cleveland ? Columbus ? Elyrla ? Lorain ? Mansfield ? Obarlin ? Ravenna ? Sandusky ? Warren ? Youngstown . Northeast Ohio VOL. XXIII NO. 35 MAY 9,1992 THRU MAY 16, 1*92 25 CENTS PER COPY 1 Q Ciijkt In Oke Harkncn ARSENIO HALL HONORED Black Kidney Donors Needed by llurkles Walker, Freelance writer The Kidney Foundation of Ohio, in exoneration with community leaders and health experts, recently sponsored a Leader's Breakfast. Though the breakfast was continental, there was a potpourri of resourceful speakers. Presenters included Jeff Johnson, Ohio State Senator; Daisy Alford, Cleveland Public Health Director; Davis, Dept. of Nephrology, Akron City Hospital; Jack Lynch, Community specialist, Chicago; Rev. Albert Rowan, Mininstcr, Bethany Church, Cleveland. The Breakfast meeting was held at the Omni Hotel, East Uih r?-?i w?wi auM vai Cleveland on Monday, April 27,1992. Purpose of (he meeting was local! attention to the increasing shortage of organ donors among black Americans. Some startling faces were revealed at this meeting: 'Blacks make up 12% of the nation's population but represent 30% of those with kidney disease'. One out of four Blacks have high blood pressure, while in whites it is one of six. Black 'males under age 45 arc ten times more likely to die from hypertension than White males. High blood pressure has no noticeable symptoms. High blood pressure is related to kidney disease. It has been found thai the need for dialysis and kidney transplants arc four limes greater among Blacks while the greatest number of donors arc White. Further, it was stated that some Blacks arc reluctant to donate organs. Reasons include: I) religious beliefs; 2) mistrust of medical profession; 3) fear of premature death, and 4) lack of knowledge. If Blacks know the medical facts they will sign donor cares in sufficient numbers, speakers agreed. This is why a task force, charged with structurings five year plan, to make available education in the prevention of kidney disease and organ donation is aimed at the Black community. Continued to Page 6 Tanya Strong, Chanel 5 Television prepares to M.C. the Leaders Breakfast Program. Urban League Scholarships The Akron Community Service Center & Urban League, Inc. announced the recipients of its annual scholarship program. Each year since 1984, this organization has maintained a program to honor area h igh school grad uates and help them make ends meet when preparing to finance their college educations. The program was begun in 1984 by Vernon L. Odom, retiring Executive Director of the Akron Community Service Center & Urban League, according to S. David Worhatch, Chairman of the Scholarship Program. The agency-sponsored scholarship program has grown steadily in the past three years. In 1989, for example, a total of four (4) scholarship for $9,000 in the aggregate were awarded. According to Worhatch, 20 scholarships will be awarded worth a total of $35,000 to the recipients. "We arc looking for individuals who have more than just good academic credentials," worhatch said. "We interview nominees and try to make awards to those who have drive and potential to make meaningful contributions to the communily-at-largc with the higher education they will receive,' he said. In the past, Odom has said that his agency's scholarship intentionally are kept to moderate levels. According to Odom, a student who is resourceful enough will find other means of financing his or her education. The Akron Urban League's scholarship can provide one part of the overall financing solution. ! "And once a student gets a I lasts, ol success in the lirst year in college," Odom continued, "he or she is likely to slick wit h it and graduate with a degree This year's scholarship pro gram featured awards Irom several individuals. Mrs. Vivian Riggins, a retired Akron school teacher, renewed her annual $1,000 scholarship award. Worhatch and Eddie Elias each contributed $1,000 scholarships to honor Odom s achievements and* contributions to the community during the four decades he has worked for the Akron Com munity Service Center & Ur ban League. And Odom surprised the scholarship com mitlcc by announcing that he was making a $1,000 contribu lion himself this year. 1992 Akron Urban LeagueScholarship recipients arc: 1 Inette Smith of Ellet, $1,000 from liaM Ohio Gas; Anthony Palmer of Barberton, S1,000 from Babcock & Wilcox; Nicole Ward of Filet. $1,000 from Loral; Felicia Faster of Buchtel, $1,000 from First National Bank; Sheana Graham of East. SI.(KM) from Akron Beacon Journal; William Scott of East, $1,000 from Allstate Insurance; Roxanne Drone of Buchtel, $ 1 ,(KX) from .Insurance; Slangy rtfenTf ot Buchtel, S1 .(KM) from Wm.Pcnn Foundation; Erika Jackson of Buchtel. Sl.(KK) from V/m Pcnn Foundation; Gregory Bradshaw of Garfield SI,5(M) from Gen Corp; Staccv McMillan of Buchtel. SI,(KM) from Vivian Rigcins; Eleanor Gould of Buchtel. SI,(KM) from Perry Memorial Fund; Shaneen Christian (renewal), $1,500 Continued to Page 2 Stacey Hannah of Garfield High School accepts scholarship from Vernon L Odom during Urban I eague Banquet. I lannah plans to attend The Tuskegee Institute this fall. Central State University of Wilberforcc, Ohio, awarded an honorary degree Wednesday (April IK) to popular talkshow host Arsenio Hall. More than a thousand students and guests applauded and cheered as Hall becam Dr. Arscnio Hall Central State President Arthur E. Thomas conferred the honorary Doctor of Humane Ix-ttcrs Degree to the Cleveland native. Betty K. Pinkney, Cleveland attorney and chairman of Central State Board of Trustees, presented the doctoral hood to Hall. After a few jokes, Hall got busy and gave students some serious advice about black-onblack crime. "I read a lot because 1 have to put that monologue together every night and I try to bring the world events to you through the television, and one thing I constantly read is the statistics on black-onblack crime. You know there was a time when black people were lynched in America and the latest statistics show we arc lynching each other," Hall said. | "I get depressed. You start to ! think there is no hope...beeause there is a tendency for the media to only highlight the negative (applause)." he said. "I'm a workaholic I really don't have much time to do anything but every now and then you take some lime off and show some repeats and come to a place like Central State and one of the reasons I'm proud, not as .nuch because of this but because, don't you feel good to be black right this minute. You know what I 1 mean? Even the white people \ dapped," he joked. "Don't get < me wrong, some of my best < friends arc white." 1 llall said Central State offered excellence to its stu- i dents. "You reali/.c that there j is hope for the future and we s are the hope, (applause) That hope is in this room," hesaid as f the audience applauded. a Hall said he had nianv offers ti to receive honorary degrees, bul accepted Central State's. "I guest the answer is, "God works in mysterious ways and when I finally felt moved to accept an honor like this...the only place to do it was right here where I was born in Ohio and with vou." "I thank you very much for beinga part of this...lean think of three very important days in my life, and don t ask me to tell you about the other two," he joked. "But this is one of them and I thank you from the hot torn of my heart.. .You don't know how proud I feel to look out over an audience of black people in an institution of higher learning trying to do the right thing. Half was animated and upbeat during the program, hugging the lead singer with the CSU Chorus and playing the ?ymbalswith the CSU Concert 3and as they played. i After the program, Hall readly shook hands, signed auto- | ?raphs and hugged manyof the tuuents. I During a news conference, < -lall thanked reporters for the ( ttcntion and fielded qucs- ( ions about becoming success- j iui in Hollywood, the pressures and his responsibility as a role model to youngsters throughout the nation. "Sure there is pressure, but instead of going after Johnny Carson's audience, I found the demographics that he didn't have." As for receiving an honorary degree, Hall said his responsibility to fans and admirers will remain the same. "It's the same responsibility I had from the day I was born. It's the responsibility every man has to his country and that every black man has." "Central State University is so important because I believe education is the beginning of solving some of our problems."On Wednesday morning, April 18, Hall had talked to students about the dangers of substance abuse at Cox Elementary School in Xcnia, Ohio. He is an ambassador of DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). On Thursday, April 9, Hall testified on behalf of Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes D-Cleveland) before a House :ommittec dealing with crime ind violence. I > ? .1 I I)r. Arsenio Hall receives honorary degree from I)r. Arthur E. Thomas, Central State University President. Jeffrey Dahmer Sentenced To Life Judge James R. Williams of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas presided over the Jeffrey Dahmer case this past week before a packed courtroom of reporters, court officers and the public. The case was broadcast live via T.V. and covered by the CNN National Network. Prosecutor Lynn Slaby and his Chief Assistant, Fred Zuch, represented the State and Attorney Larry Vuillcmin of Akron and Robert and Joyce Mozentcr of Philadelphia represented Dahmer. Dahmer, who is already serving IS life terms for murders committed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, entered a plea of guilty for the murder or Steven Hicks of Coventry Township. Hickwasapparently Dahmcr's first victim of a career as one of America's Most Notorious serial killers. I Prior to sentencing Judge Williams heard from several members of the Hicks Family, including Steven's mother, Martha Hicks. Mrs. Hicks told Williams that he should impose the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. She expressed her regrets that Dahmcr could not be put to death because Ohio's death penalty was not in force at the time of the murder in 1978. Before imposing sentence Judge Williams commended the Hicks Family for the courage and expressed his hope that they would be able to put this matter behind them and live as full a life as possible under the very difficult circumstances. After asking Dahmer if he had anything to say and listening to a statement from one of Dahmer's lawyers, Judge Williams sentenced Dahmcr to life impris onment ana oracr mat tne sentence run consecutive to the time in Wisconsin. Williams further ordered that Dahmcr not be credited with any time served outside of the State of Ohio. 1 One observer noted that it was ironic that Williams, an African-American, was presiding over the Dahmer cassc here in Ohio inasmuch as mos of the victims in Wisconsii were African-Americans tha Continued to Page 2 Pleas Judge Dahmer last Friday. Seen is Judge Williams, Attys Joyce and Robert Mozenter, Jeffrey Dahmer, Defense Atty Larry Vuillemin and Summit County Prosecutor Lynn Slaby. Postal Essay Contest Winner Malcolm Weathers, Manager of Newburg Post Office holds an Olympic T-shirt and Tatlana Brown holds "We Have A Dream," a booklet of African Americana who have been featured on U.S. Postage stamp*. Joinglng them li her teacher, Ms. Claudia l^igan. The Ml grader Is a student of Miles Park Elementary. Brawn was the Mi grade essay contest winner. The contest was sponsored by the Marketing A Communications Department at the Cleveland Post Office. (Photo by Don Saseraldl) Bishop Ellis Celebrates 10 Years Of Marriage On May 16, 1992, Sabrina Joyce Clinkscalc-Ellis will celebrate 10 years of marriage to the Bishop J. Delano Ellis in a formal ceremony at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the Pentecostal Church of Christ in Cleveland. The Ellis'wcrc married January 8, 1982 in Memphis, Tennessee by Judge Anne Pugh. On the 16th the nuptials will be officiated by Bishop Roy E. Brown of Brooklyn, New York, Bishop J. O. Patterson, Jr. of Memphis, Tennessee with matrimonial sermon by Bishop H. Jenkins Bell of Nashville, Tennessee. The service will be complimented by Mrs. Karen ClarkSheard of the world famous Clark Sisters of Detroit, Michigan along with the Watkins Memorial Tabernacle Choir. Pentecostal Church of Christ is the largest black pentecostal church in the Cleveland area with membership and constituents in excess of 2.000. The congregation is Suhrina.I ( linkscalr-Fllis pastured by the groom ol the day. Bishop J DclanoHllis.il. Mrs Ellis is the eldest daughter of the Rescrend George L. Clinkscale and Mrs. Almyra Battles, both of Dallas, Texas. Bishop and Mrs Ellis arc the parents of Jessica Dclana. age g and Jasmine Delana, age 2. Anti-Apartheid Leader Visits Akron Dean Isaac Ilunl Jr. al the University of Akron law School, and Kcv. I.ydla Spragin watches as Atty Kandell Koblnson is welcomed to Black law Students Association Annual Awards Banquet hy Marty Stanford - BAI.SA president and Professor Modibo Heron on Saturday, April 25.1992. Randcll Robinson, executive director of Trans Africa, keynoted the University of Akron's Black Law Students Associations Annual Award Banquet held April 25,1992 at the Cascade Plaza Hotel. As executive director of TransAfrica, Atty Randcll Robinson has protested the U.S. governments deportation of Haitian refugees who fled the country after the September 1991 coup of President Jean Bertrand Aristidc. But Atty Robinson is better known for shaping a more progressive U.S. Foreign Policy toward Africa and the Caribbean. He mobilized opposition to U.S. support to apartheid in South Africa and has organized continued local and private economic sanctions. Professor Modiba Ocron introduced Randcll Robinson, a Graduate of Virginia Union iniversity and Howard Law School. He is currently a staff attorney for the Lawyers Com - mittce for Civil Rights Under Law. Martv A. Stanford, presdent of BALSA, was the master of ceremonies. Dean Isaac C. Hunt Jr. gave greetings. Remarks of cncouragmcnt were given by Summit Otunty Juvenile Judge Sandra Robinson, and Dr. Neil Holmes of the University of Akron Political Science Department. Rev. Lydia Spragin, BALSA treasurer, gave the invocation and the benediction. Other BALSA officers arc Lewis Adams, coorcsponding secretary; and co-chairpcrson of BALSA Banquet were Joe Washington and Fernando Mack. Members of BALSA arc: Angela Ambers, Sandra D. Anderson, Michael Bcrhcc, Sonya K. Bclliford, W. Byron Calhoun, Reynold Cesar, Lance Coleman, Ne'eole V. Crowell, Charles E. Curry, Ana M. StaCruz, Russell L. Drake, Donald Emerson, Teresa Fields, Cheryl Goodrum, Lillic Gray, Andrea Harris, Mareia E. Hart, Jim Herbert, Daphne W. Huntley, Kimhcrly Johnson, Paul Johnson, Qucntin Jones, Karla Long, Elisa Murphy, Adelaide Ocran,Tee Luck Pcrsad.Evcrard Potter, Arlccn Ropers, Marion D. Rogers, Tracte L. Sims, Michael Tcrcbo, Alan Ttiggs, Tiffanc' S. White and Shelby Woodall.

PWfc Reporter ! incinnati ? Cleveland ? Columbus ? Elyrla ? Lorain ? Mansfield ? Obarlin ? Ravenna ? Sandusky ? Warren ? Youngstown . Northeast Ohio VOL. XXIII NO. 35 MAY 9,1992 THRU MAY 16, 1*92 25 CENTS PER COPY 1 Q Ciijkt In Oke Harkncn ARSENIO HALL HONORED Black Kidney Donors Needed by llurkles Walker, Freelance writer The Kidney Foundation of Ohio, in exoneration with community leaders and health experts, recently sponsored a Leader's Breakfast. Though the breakfast was continental, there was a potpourri of resourceful speakers. Presenters included Jeff Johnson, Ohio State Senator; Daisy Alford, Cleveland Public Health Director; Davis, Dept. of Nephrology, Akron City Hospital; Jack Lynch, Community specialist, Chicago; Rev. Albert Rowan, Mininstcr, Bethany Church, Cleveland. The Breakfast meeting was held at the Omni Hotel, East Uih r?-?i w?wi auM vai Cleveland on Monday, April 27,1992. Purpose of (he meeting was local! attention to the increasing shortage of organ donors among black Americans. Some startling faces were revealed at this meeting: 'Blacks make up 12% of the nation's population but represent 30% of those with kidney disease'. One out of four Blacks have high blood pressure, while in whites it is one of six. Black 'males under age 45 arc ten times more likely to die from hypertension than White males. High blood pressure has no noticeable symptoms. High blood pressure is related to kidney disease. It has been found thai the need for dialysis and kidney transplants arc four limes greater among Blacks while the greatest number of donors arc White. Further, it was stated that some Blacks arc reluctant to donate organs. Reasons include: I) religious beliefs; 2) mistrust of medical profession; 3) fear of premature death, and 4) lack of knowledge. If Blacks know the medical facts they will sign donor cares in sufficient numbers, speakers agreed. This is why a task force, charged with structurings five year plan, to make available education in the prevention of kidney disease and organ donation is aimed at the Black community. Continued to Page 6 Tanya Strong, Chanel 5 Television prepares to M.C. the Leaders Breakfast Program. Urban League Scholarships The Akron Community Service Center & Urban League, Inc. announced the recipients of its annual scholarship program. Each year since 1984, this organization has maintained a program to honor area h igh school grad uates and help them make ends meet when preparing to finance their college educations. The program was begun in 1984 by Vernon L. Odom, retiring Executive Director of the Akron Community Service Center & Urban League, according to S. David Worhatch, Chairman of the Scholarship Program. The agency-sponsored scholarship program has grown steadily in the past three years. In 1989, for example, a total of four (4) scholarship for $9,000 in the aggregate were awarded. According to Worhatch, 20 scholarships will be awarded worth a total of $35,000 to the recipients. "We arc looking for individuals who have more than just good academic credentials," worhatch said. "We interview nominees and try to make awards to those who have drive and potential to make meaningful contributions to the communily-at-largc with the higher education they will receive,' he said. In the past, Odom has said that his agency's scholarship intentionally are kept to moderate levels. According to Odom, a student who is resourceful enough will find other means of financing his or her education. The Akron Urban League's scholarship can provide one part of the overall financing solution. ! "And once a student gets a I lasts, ol success in the lirst year in college," Odom continued, "he or she is likely to slick wit h it and graduate with a degree This year's scholarship pro gram featured awards Irom several individuals. Mrs. Vivian Riggins, a retired Akron school teacher, renewed her annual $1,000 scholarship award. Worhatch and Eddie Elias each contributed $1,000 scholarships to honor Odom s achievements and* contributions to the community during the four decades he has worked for the Akron Com munity Service Center & Ur ban League. And Odom surprised the scholarship com mitlcc by announcing that he was making a $1,000 contribu lion himself this year. 1992 Akron Urban LeagueScholarship recipients arc: 1 Inette Smith of Ellet, $1,000 from liaM Ohio Gas; Anthony Palmer of Barberton, S1,000 from Babcock & Wilcox; Nicole Ward of Filet. $1,000 from Loral; Felicia Faster of Buchtel, $1,000 from First National Bank; Sheana Graham of East. SI.(KM) from Akron Beacon Journal; William Scott of East, $1,000 from Allstate Insurance; Roxanne Drone of Buchtel, $ 1 ,(KX) from .Insurance; Slangy rtfenTf ot Buchtel, S1 .(KM) from Wm.Pcnn Foundation; Erika Jackson of Buchtel. Sl.(KK) from V/m Pcnn Foundation; Gregory Bradshaw of Garfield SI,5(M) from Gen Corp; Staccv McMillan of Buchtel. SI,(KM) from Vivian Rigcins; Eleanor Gould of Buchtel. SI,(KM) from Perry Memorial Fund; Shaneen Christian (renewal), $1,500 Continued to Page 2 Stacey Hannah of Garfield High School accepts scholarship from Vernon L Odom during Urban I eague Banquet. I lannah plans to attend The Tuskegee Institute this fall. Central State University of Wilberforcc, Ohio, awarded an honorary degree Wednesday (April IK) to popular talkshow host Arsenio Hall. More than a thousand students and guests applauded and cheered as Hall becam Dr. Arscnio Hall Central State President Arthur E. Thomas conferred the honorary Doctor of Humane Ix-ttcrs Degree to the Cleveland native. Betty K. Pinkney, Cleveland attorney and chairman of Central State Board of Trustees, presented the doctoral hood to Hall. After a few jokes, Hall got busy and gave students some serious advice about black-onblack crime. "I read a lot because 1 have to put that monologue together every night and I try to bring the world events to you through the television, and one thing I constantly read is the statistics on black-onblack crime. You know there was a time when black people were lynched in America and the latest statistics show we arc lynching each other," Hall said. | "I get depressed. You start to ! think there is no hope...beeause there is a tendency for the media to only highlight the negative (applause)." he said. "I'm a workaholic I really don't have much time to do anything but every now and then you take some lime off and show some repeats and come to a place like Central State and one of the reasons I'm proud, not as .nuch because of this but because, don't you feel good to be black right this minute. You know what I 1 mean? Even the white people \ dapped," he joked. "Don't get < me wrong, some of my best < friends arc white." 1 llall said Central State offered excellence to its stu- i dents. "You reali/.c that there j is hope for the future and we s are the hope, (applause) That hope is in this room," hesaid as f the audience applauded. a Hall said he had nianv offers ti to receive honorary degrees, bul accepted Central State's. "I guest the answer is, "God works in mysterious ways and when I finally felt moved to accept an honor like this...the only place to do it was right here where I was born in Ohio and with vou." "I thank you very much for beinga part of this...lean think of three very important days in my life, and don t ask me to tell you about the other two," he joked. "But this is one of them and I thank you from the hot torn of my heart.. .You don't know how proud I feel to look out over an audience of black people in an institution of higher learning trying to do the right thing. Half was animated and upbeat during the program, hugging the lead singer with the CSU Chorus and playing the ?ymbalswith the CSU Concert 3and as they played. i After the program, Hall readly shook hands, signed auto- | ?raphs and hugged manyof the tuuents. I During a news conference, < -lall thanked reporters for the ( ttcntion and fielded qucs- ( ions about becoming success- j iui in Hollywood, the pressures and his responsibility as a role model to youngsters throughout the nation. "Sure there is pressure, but instead of going after Johnny Carson's audience, I found the demographics that he didn't have." As for receiving an honorary degree, Hall said his responsibility to fans and admirers will remain the same. "It's the same responsibility I had from the day I was born. It's the responsibility every man has to his country and that every black man has." "Central State University is so important because I believe education is the beginning of solving some of our problems."On Wednesday morning, April 18, Hall had talked to students about the dangers of substance abuse at Cox Elementary School in Xcnia, Ohio. He is an ambassador of DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). On Thursday, April 9, Hall testified on behalf of Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes D-Cleveland) before a House :ommittec dealing with crime ind violence. I > ? .1 I I)r. Arsenio Hall receives honorary degree from I)r. Arthur E. Thomas, Central State University President. Jeffrey Dahmer Sentenced To Life Judge James R. Williams of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas presided over the Jeffrey Dahmer case this past week before a packed courtroom of reporters, court officers and the public. The case was broadcast live via T.V. and covered by the CNN National Network. Prosecutor Lynn Slaby and his Chief Assistant, Fred Zuch, represented the State and Attorney Larry Vuillcmin of Akron and Robert and Joyce Mozentcr of Philadelphia represented Dahmer. Dahmer, who is already serving IS life terms for murders committed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, entered a plea of guilty for the murder or Steven Hicks of Coventry Township. Hickwasapparently Dahmcr's first victim of a career as one of America's Most Notorious serial killers. I Prior to sentencing Judge Williams heard from several members of the Hicks Family, including Steven's mother, Martha Hicks. Mrs. Hicks told Williams that he should impose the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. She expressed her regrets that Dahmcr could not be put to death because Ohio's death penalty was not in force at the time of the murder in 1978. Before imposing sentence Judge Williams commended the Hicks Family for the courage and expressed his hope that they would be able to put this matter behind them and live as full a life as possible under the very difficult circumstances. After asking Dahmer if he had anything to say and listening to a statement from one of Dahmer's lawyers, Judge Williams sentenced Dahmcr to life impris onment ana oracr mat tne sentence run consecutive to the time in Wisconsin. Williams further ordered that Dahmcr not be credited with any time served outside of the State of Ohio. 1 One observer noted that it was ironic that Williams, an African-American, was presiding over the Dahmer cassc here in Ohio inasmuch as mos of the victims in Wisconsii were African-Americans tha Continued to Page 2 Pleas Judge Dahmer last Friday. Seen is Judge Williams, Attys Joyce and Robert Mozenter, Jeffrey Dahmer, Defense Atty Larry Vuillemin and Summit County Prosecutor Lynn Slaby. Postal Essay Contest Winner Malcolm Weathers, Manager of Newburg Post Office holds an Olympic T-shirt and Tatlana Brown holds "We Have A Dream," a booklet of African Americana who have been featured on U.S. Postage stamp*. Joinglng them li her teacher, Ms. Claudia l^igan. The Ml grader Is a student of Miles Park Elementary. Brawn was the Mi grade essay contest winner. The contest was sponsored by the Marketing A Communications Department at the Cleveland Post Office. (Photo by Don Saseraldl) Bishop Ellis Celebrates 10 Years Of Marriage On May 16, 1992, Sabrina Joyce Clinkscalc-Ellis will celebrate 10 years of marriage to the Bishop J. Delano Ellis in a formal ceremony at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the Pentecostal Church of Christ in Cleveland. The Ellis'wcrc married January 8, 1982 in Memphis, Tennessee by Judge Anne Pugh. On the 16th the nuptials will be officiated by Bishop Roy E. Brown of Brooklyn, New York, Bishop J. O. Patterson, Jr. of Memphis, Tennessee with matrimonial sermon by Bishop H. Jenkins Bell of Nashville, Tennessee. The service will be complimented by Mrs. Karen ClarkSheard of the world famous Clark Sisters of Detroit, Michigan along with the Watkins Memorial Tabernacle Choir. Pentecostal Church of Christ is the largest black pentecostal church in the Cleveland area with membership and constituents in excess of 2.000. The congregation is Suhrina.I ( linkscalr-Fllis pastured by the groom ol the day. Bishop J DclanoHllis.il. Mrs Ellis is the eldest daughter of the Rescrend George L. Clinkscale and Mrs. Almyra Battles, both of Dallas, Texas. Bishop and Mrs Ellis arc the parents of Jessica Dclana. age g and Jasmine Delana, age 2. Anti-Apartheid Leader Visits Akron Dean Isaac Ilunl Jr. al the University of Akron law School, and Kcv. I.ydla Spragin watches as Atty Kandell Koblnson is welcomed to Black law Students Association Annual Awards Banquet hy Marty Stanford - BAI.SA president and Professor Modibo Heron on Saturday, April 25.1992. Randcll Robinson, executive director of Trans Africa, keynoted the University of Akron's Black Law Students Associations Annual Award Banquet held April 25,1992 at the Cascade Plaza Hotel. As executive director of TransAfrica, Atty Randcll Robinson has protested the U.S. governments deportation of Haitian refugees who fled the country after the September 1991 coup of President Jean Bertrand Aristidc. But Atty Robinson is better known for shaping a more progressive U.S. Foreign Policy toward Africa and the Caribbean. He mobilized opposition to U.S. support to apartheid in South Africa and has organized continued local and private economic sanctions. Professor Modiba Ocron introduced Randcll Robinson, a Graduate of Virginia Union iniversity and Howard Law School. He is currently a staff attorney for the Lawyers Com - mittce for Civil Rights Under Law. Martv A. Stanford, presdent of BALSA, was the master of ceremonies. Dean Isaac C. Hunt Jr. gave greetings. Remarks of cncouragmcnt were given by Summit Otunty Juvenile Judge Sandra Robinson, and Dr. Neil Holmes of the University of Akron Political Science Department. Rev. Lydia Spragin, BALSA treasurer, gave the invocation and the benediction. Other BALSA officers arc Lewis Adams, coorcsponding secretary; and co-chairpcrson of BALSA Banquet were Joe Washington and Fernando Mack. Members of BALSA arc: Angela Ambers, Sandra D. Anderson, Michael Bcrhcc, Sonya K. Bclliford, W. Byron Calhoun, Reynold Cesar, Lance Coleman, Ne'eole V. Crowell, Charles E. Curry, Ana M. StaCruz, Russell L. Drake, Donald Emerson, Teresa Fields, Cheryl Goodrum, Lillic Gray, Andrea Harris, Mareia E. Hart, Jim Herbert, Daphne W. Huntley, Kimhcrly Johnson, Paul Johnson, Qucntin Jones, Karla Long, Elisa Murphy, Adelaide Ocran,Tee Luck Pcrsad.Evcrard Potter, Arlccn Ropers, Marion D. Rogers, Tracte L. Sims, Michael Tcrcbo, Alan Ttiggs, Tiffanc' S. White and Shelby Woodall.